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Picayune :: Picayune (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

Halfpace :: Halfpace (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

Right-about :: Right-about (n.) A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about..

Run :: Run (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter..

Ghetto :: Ghetto (n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

Hibernacle :: Hibernacle (n.) That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant..

Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers..

Quateron :: Quateron (n.) See 2d Quarteron.

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

Coach :: Coach (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain..

Pigweed :: Pigweed (n.) A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's-quarters..

Back :: Back (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

Astragal :: Astragal (n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle..

Frost-blite :: Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).

Quarteron :: Quarteron (n.) Alt. of Quarteroo.

Quartered :: Quartered (imp. & p. p.) of Quartte.

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate..

Maximilian :: Maximilian (n.) A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter..

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